PATHS
Six maps through the material
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Architecture in the real world 7 of 7 written
Boundaries, transactions and the organisational reasons behind both.
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Distributed basics 2 of 6 written
What the network does to assumptions you did not know you had made, until it breaks them.
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Running a software factory 19 of 19 written
A pipeline of narrow agents carrying a change from a request to a deployed result, with a person on every decision that matters — mechanism before plumbing.
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Open the map → Growing as a developer 9 of 10 written
The only path here that is not about a system.
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Open the map → How a database keeps your data 7 of 7 written
How a database actually keeps your data, in the order that makes each step explain the next.
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Trees and traversal 3 of 5 written
Five steps from what a tree is to why databases put them on disk.
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